Israel's God in Zion, the praise of the whole earth

Psalm 48 completes this series. Jehovah is fully established as
Israel's God in Zion, now the praise of the whole earth, the city
of the great King, and in whose palaces God is well known as a
refuge. The kings were assembled; they found another sort of power
there than they thought of, marvelled, were troubled, and hasted
away. The power of the sea was broken by the east wind, and
Jehovah's hand manifested there too. The psalm beautifully refers
to the beginning of Psalm 44, where they had said in their
distress, We have heard with our ears .... the mighty works of the
fathers' days. Now they say, As we have heard, so have we seen in
the city of Jehovah Sabaoth, the city of our God. They do not now
say, as in Psalm 42, "I had gone with the multitude," but now cry
to thee from Jordan; but in sweet and unendangered peace, "we have
thought of thy lovingkindness, O God, in the midst of thy temple."
God's name they had trusted, but now His praise was according to
it. He had come in in power. It was so to the ends of the
earth. He calls on Mount Zion to rejoice because of these
judgments, with the joyful assurance that this God is their God
for ever and ever; their life long will He guide and bless
them. It is an earthly blessing, and death, the last enemy, is not
destroyed (v. 11-14).